Chocolate Toffee

Chocolate Toffee

Introduction:
What's more delicious than chocolate? How about chocolate sprinkled onto of a warm toffee bar? This is one of the most decadent treats I tasted in the class. The toffee was made similarly to how the caramel was made because it was made with melted brown sugar. It was a treat you could eat warm and soft or you could but it in the fridge and get a nice toffee crunch out of it.

Materials:

• FOR THE DOUGH:
• ⅔ cup flour
• 1½ tbsp. sugar
• ⅛ tsp. kosher salt
• 4 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
• 2 tsp. milk
• 
  FOR THE TOFFEE AND CHOCOLATE LAYERS:
• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• 6 tbsp. unsalted butter
• 2 tbsp. honey
• 1 tbsp. milk
• ⅛ tsp. kosher salt
• 1¾ cups finely chopped pecans, lightly toasted
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• ¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preparation:

1. Make the crust: Whisk flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add butter and using a dough blender, two forks, or your fingers, cut butter into flour mixture, forming pea-size crumbles; stir in milk until dough forms. Add more milk, if necessary, until dough holds together but is not wet. Press dough into a parchment paper-lined 8” square baking dish; chill 15 minutes.

2. Heat oven to 350°. Bake crust until golden, 25 minutes; let cool.

3. Make the toffee layer: Bring sugar, butter, honey, milk, and salt to a boil in a 2-qt. saucepan over medium heat. Cook until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in 1½ cups pecans and the vanilla. Spread toffee mixture evenly over the crust; bake until toffee is golden brown and bubbly, 17-20 minutes. Transfer the pan to a wire rack; let cool 5 minutes, then sprinkle evenly with chocolate chips. Let stand 5 minutes, then, using a spatula, smooth chocolate into an even layer; sprinkle immediately with remaining pecans. Let cool completely, and then refrigerate until firm; cut into squares.

Results:
I'm in shock, it was ridiculously good. The chocolate chips were able to melt on top of the toffee and then we could apply it as a ice cream topping. One little piece was enough to blast your mouth with flavor, but it kept you wanting more.